Making cordage is one of the most important survival skills you can ever learn, bar none. One of the best materials you can use to make your own natural cordage is the fibrous leaf of the yucca plant. Learn the ancient method in the video below.

Sure, paracord is stronger and much more convenient. After all, utilizing this method it would take you a very long time to acquire a meaningful amount of cordage, but you can be sure that you’d be much more careful with any cordage you made by hand.

Rather than slicing off piece after piece as many survivalists are likely to do with their paracord, you would instead learn proper knots in order to conserve what little rope you have. Of course, if you practice this method as often as possible now, you would be a lot faster at making any rope you’d ever need when SHTF.